As all of you, I do enjoy reading. Alas, I don't enjoy so much to charge my back with more than unavoidable weight: my laptop, the book I'm reading those days and as less reference titles as possible.

My laptop is a still-good toshiba portege M200. I have obtained quite good results from it... except as a reading device. It's angle of vision is too narrow to permit a comfortable reading session.

Maybe a good solution would be a motion computing ls800, with the ViewAnywhere option... if you want to spend 2298$, what I cannot justify with my portege still happily working.

I've tried also PDAs (my phone, a QTEK 9100, and my wife's Axim X51V) and, although there is capable software for reading, both TFT and display real estate is not enough for a long reading ride.

So, there are e-ink readers. Iliad, Sony reader (or second-hand librie), that chinese ghost devices. I really would like to find a working solution for reading ebooks and documents. I assume that both reader and Iliad offer a good reading experience because of the displays. That justifies the expenditure by itself.

I really would appreciate an annotation and marking capability. As far as I know, reader doesn't have anything like this, and I am not sure about iliad

Write and comment in articles (format and DRM dependant.)

If that writing functionality would be more than introducing bitmap or not-indexed, text annotations -- I mean, an operational marking capability which let me recover the texts I marked in a moment -- then Iliad would be a totally justified option for me.

If that is not the case, then I really would appreciate advices from you veterans: Do you think that double-prized Iliad is worth the investment, compared with ereader?

No worries about the long post. Dive right in! You should immediately head on over to the Which One Should I Buy forum section. You might not be ready to buy just yet, but you'll be able to read about all the topic you've brought up and more!